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This article disingenuously ignores reuse of a reusable asset. The argument falls apart as soon as higher quality things are made with reuse in mind. You don’t throw cotton bags away after the first use.

Single use plastics are a colossal waste of resources and cause environmental damage when not correctly disposed of. That reason alone should render their use outlawed.

Why do you think organisations go to the trouble of sponsoring visas?

Papering over the lack of a suitably equipped workforce because of deficiencies in the education system will similarly not lead to growth.

Blaming immigrants is lazy.

Adobe don’t have to care what their customers think because their business practices have eradicated most of their competitors, leaving them trapped.

Neoliberalism is not a viable way to run an economy without enforcement of monopoly legislation.

The point is that you still need to expose a shell or a wrapper around exec to launch those commands. That is t appropriate when I want to lock the model down to working entirely from a sandboxed environment and expose some basic tools which are not “entire posix user space”.

MCP servers are not dead, they’re just overused in contexts they don’t really make sense in.

The issue is that a huge amount of value is tied up in the client applications, which do not have community-maintained equivalents.

Here's hoping it's not another security nightmare...

IMO we don’t place enough emphasis on the gain in comfort: my home is a solid 21°C at all times since we replaced our aging gas boiler. The larger radiators, lower water temperature and “always on” operation have removed the temperature swings.

Heat loss in our home is high (single skin brick), but our bills over the course of the year are on a par with having the heating running for 12h a day. They are substantially more expensive during the winter when temperatures drop below 5°C, but that isn’t noticeable when averaging the bills out over the year.

Got to do our roof in the next couple of years so solar is a natural next step for us.

Why is it a problem? Why should the ability to afford healthcare determine your ability to access it?

I'm genuinely curious as to why you think it's reasonable for the less financially well off to die.

Why must I do anything of the sort? As with all things there is a balance to be found that does not necessarily mean zero.

I can both support healthcare that’s free at the point of access (this distinction is important, because the NHS is not strictly speaking a “single payer” system, as both National Insurance and tax revenues from e.g. alcohol and cigarette sales are used to fund it) and individual liberty, even if that increases the cost of healthcare delivery. The NHS is not evidence of an authoritarian regime, it is evidence of the state playing a role in maintaining baseline standards of health, largely for the purposes of maintaining a healthy workforce.

Americans have such a wildly warped worldview in my experience.

I sympathise with this. I don't use macOS by choice, but because my employer forces me to do so as the security team has a dated understanding of the state of desktop Linux and MDM software.

The challenge with macOS window managers seems to be handling movement of windows between spaces, particularly when the display configuration changes (e.g. when docking and undocking a laptop, or opening and closing the lid). I've tried Yabai, AeroSpace, OmniWM, Hammerspoon w/ PaperWM.spoon, and Rift. None of them have delivered the level of polish Niri achieves.

Niri can even do one better: if you configure a keybind for the move-workspace-to-monitor-next or -prev actions you can move entire spaces between monitors, with wrap around. You can do the same for a column of windows (by default an individual window, but you can stack windows such that only one is visible in a group or that they're all visible in rows). I'll usually split my chat/monitoring spaces from my active development ones so I can passively refer back to them whilst working on an active task.

Niri offers a wonderful workflow; it really is an excellent piece of software.

I would really love to hear more about this, but my cursory search didn't find a write up about it.

I did a PoC of Dagger for an integration and delivery workload and loved the local development experience. Being able to define complex pipelines as a series of composable actions in a language which can be type checked was a great experience, and assembling these into unix-style pipelines felt very natural.

I struggled to go beyond this and into an integration environment, though. Dagger's current caching implementation is very much built around there being a single long-lived node and doesn't scale out well, at least without the undocumented experimental OCI caching implementation. Are you able to share any details on how Fastly operates Dagger?

They are absolutely not common in Europe, and aren't even generally enforceable in consumer contracts. They're considered non-binding, as they're "unfair terms" in the Unfair Terms Directive 1993.

Anubis is the new hotness, specifically billing itself as an "AI firewall". If you've had an animé waifu check you're human you've even used it.